The Pervert’s Guide To Ideology

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With his ashtray complexion and consonant-mangling accent, Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek is an unlikely star. But as his latest collaboration with the director Sophie Fiennes demonstrates, Žižek is as entertaining as he is provocative; as playfully witty as he is chaotic. The Pervert’s Guide To Ideology employs the same cultural magpie technique as the previous collaboration between Žižek and Fiennes, the three part opus The Pervert’s Guide To Cinema. An intellectual law unto himself, Žižek zips from “Catholicism’s obscene contract” as demonstrated by The Sound of Music; to a deconstruction of the Kinder Surprise Egg, to Spielberg’s